On Thu, Apr 30, 2020 at 17:44 Constantine A. Murenin <c...@netbsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 12:20, <m...@netbsd.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 02:30:48PM +1000, Paul Ripke wrote: >> > I switched away from cvsup a while back, but I now see that github >> > NetBSD/src mirror is now 5 days old. Known issue? >> >> Yes, I believe joerg and spz are changing the conversion from >> cvs->??->git to hg->git, to match what will be done once we stop using >> CVS. >> > > What's wrong with "??"? I think it's pretty well-known that Fossil has > been the intermediary repository in NetBSD's conversion from CVS to Git > since 2011, and it would seem that https://src.fossil.netbsd.org/ is > still up-to-date, FWIIW, whereas GitHub's src is 7 days behind. > > I thought the plan to move to HG hasn't been finalised yet, am I missing > something? Plus, why HG and not Fossil, if the end-result consumption is > via Git anyways? > Last I heard fossil had scaling issues due to the large number of artifacts that needed to be tracked. I may be able to trawl notes and find some particulars, or Joerg may be able to comment from memory on the technical aspects. I was really hopeful for fossil as a solution as it seems really sane for many reasons: 1) good user interface(s) 2) good, novel ticket handling 3) sane architecture 4) portable C implementation 5) BSD license I think in the end though Joerg reckoned the scalability issue was too much. -bch > > C. >
